"What if NYC were a character in a mystery novel?"

“Brian had all that day to figure out what was going on, and yet he didn't.”

“In order to hold your faith intact be sure it's kept unsullied by fact.”

“What did Jesus Christ say to the Teamsters? 'Do nothing till I get back.'”

“If Chester had a failing, it was that he believed people were what they thought they were.”

“The August sun, God's blood-blister...”

“It was apparent ... that, all over America, thousands of people threw down a book or got up from a television show and said, 'I can write better than that!' It was amazing how many of them were wrong.”